Recently, the focus of conservation efforts gradually changed from a species-centred
approach to a broader ambition of conserving functional ecosystems. This new approach …

Current approaches to conservation may be inadequate to maintain ecosystem integrity
because they are mostly based on rarity status of organisms rather than functional …

Ecological networks describe species interactions in ecological processes. There is a
growing number of methods for describing and analysing the interaction patterns between …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Biotic interactions are part of all ecosystem attributes and play an important role in the
structure and stability of biological communities. In this study, we give a brief account of how …

Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re‐establishing 'indigenous reference'communities.
One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create …

Designing effective habitat and protected area networks, which sustain species-rich
communities is a critical conservation challenge. Recent decades have witnessed the …

Ecological networks are a useful tool to study the complexity of biotic interactions at a
community level. Advances in the understanding of network patterns encourage the …

Identifying areas that contain species assemblages not found elsewhere in a region is
central to conservation planning. 1, 2 Species assemblages contain networks of species …

Network analysis, a branch of discrete mathematics that quantifies the structure of links
between a set of nodes, is emerging as a powerful methodology to approach complex …